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Clatsop County Commute Time Map & Patterns

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Commuting in Clatsop County, Oregon: how long it takes, when people leave home and how they get to work. Ask Map AI about any address.

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Commute Time Burden in Clatsop County: Annual Hours and Cost

Commuters in Clatsop County spend about 33 minutes on the road round trip each working day. Over a typical 250-day work year, that adds up to roughly 138 hours, about 5.7 full days, spent commuting. That is 18% less time on the road than the Oregon average of 20.1 minutes each way, a difference of 3.6 minutes.

Clatsop County holds about 1.0% of Oregon's population but accounts for roughly 0.8% of its total commuting time.

Working from home just 2 days a week in Clatsop County would save about 55 hours of drive time a year, worth roughly $1,708 at the same national wage assumption used above.

Area One-Way Commute Daily Round-Trip Yearly Time Spent Estimated Yearly Cost Local Road Traffic (VPD)
Clatsop County 16.5 min 33.1 min 138 hrs/yr $4,269 426
Oregon 20.1 min 40.3 min 168 hrs/yr $5,203 967
United States 22.4 min 44.8 min 187 hrs/yr $5,790 1,355

The estimated yearly cost applies a single national rule of thumb (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics average hourly earnings), not a measurement of wages in this area - treat it as a rough estimate, not a paycheck figure. Local road traffic counts, vehicles per day on non-highway roads, come from proprietary Ticon and TrafficZoom data.

Commute Time Map: Oregon Counties

Fastest commutes among counties in Oregon
  1. Lake County (7.7 min)
  2. Harney County (8.6 min)
  3. Baker County (8.9 min)
Slowest commutes among counties in Oregon
  1. Columbia County (31.7 min)
  2. Clackamas County (23.9 min)
  3. Polk County (22.2 min)

Compare commute times among different counties

Clatsop County
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Average commute time

On average, it takes 16.5 minutes to get to work in Clatsop County. That's 26% shorter than the 22.4-minute U.S. average.

The most common departure window is 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM, followed by 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM. Driving is the most common commute choice, followed by working from home. About 13.6% work from home.

How People Get to Work in Clatsop County

  • Car: 79.4%
  • Worked at Home: 13.6%
  • Walked: 4.8%
  • Other: 1.0%
  • Bicycle: 0.8%
  • Public Transportation: 0.2% unusually low
  • Taxi: 0.2%
  • Motorcycle: 0.1%

Public transit is unusually rare in Clatsop County: 9.1 times less than the Oregon average (0.2% vs 2.2%).

Commute Mode Trends in Clatsop County, 2009-2024

This chart shows how workers in Clatsop County get to work, as a share of all workers aged 16 and over, across 16 U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) releases from 2009 to 2024. Each release is a 5-year estimate: the 2024 figures cover surveys taken from 2020 to 2024. Because neighboring releases share most of their survey years, the lines move gradually, and a sudden change such as the rise of remote work in 2020 spreads across several releases. Hover over or tap a line to highlight it, and use the legend to show or hide a mode. Driving starts hidden so the smaller modes stay readable.

Share of workers aged 16 and over, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show commute mode data by year
Year Car Worked at Home Walked Other Bicycle Public Transportation Taxi Motorcycle
2009 86.8% 4.1% 5.9% 0.8% 0.8% 0.9% 0.6% 0.1%
2010 85.9% 4.4% 6.5% 0.6% 0.8% 1.6% 0.1% 0.1%
2011 86.7% 4.5% 5.5% 0.6% 0.9% 1.4% 0.2% 0.1%
2012 85.5% 5.7% 5.6% 0.7% 0.7% 1.5% 0.1% 0.3%
2013 84.0% 6.5% 6.7% 0.7% 0.6% 1.2% 0.1% 0.2%
2014 83.0% 5.4% 7.4% 0.9% 1.3% 1.6% 0.1% 0.2%
2015 82.9% 6.0% 7.1% 1.3% 1.3% 1.0% 0.2% 0.2%
2016 83.6% 6.0% 6.8% 1.1% 1.3% 0.8% 0.2% 0.2%
2017 83.4% 5.2% 7.3% 1.1% 1.8% 0.8% 0.2% 0.1%
2018 82.7% 4.7% 7.6% 1.3% 1.9% 1.4% 0.2% 0.1%
2019 83.2% 4.5% 8.1% 1.3% 1.3% 1.1% 0.3% 0.1%
2020 81.9% 6.4% 8.4% 0.9% 1.1% 1.0% 0.1% 0.1%
2021 80.7% 8.2% 7.9% 1.0% 0.8% 1.0% 0.2% 0.1%
2022 79.2% 10.1% 7.9% 1.2% 0.5% 0.9% 0.0% 0.1%
2023 79.7% 11.8% 5.7% 1.1% 0.6% 0.7% 0.3% 0.1%
2024 79.4% 13.6% 4.8% 1.0% 0.8% 0.2% 0.2% 0.1%

Driving was the most common way to get to work in every release from 2009 to 2024. Its share bottomed out in 2022 at 79.2%. Overall it fell from 86.8% in 2009 to 79.4% in 2024, down 7.4 percentage points.

Working from home gained the most ground in Clatsop County: its share of workers rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 13.6% in 2024, up 9.5 percentage points. Most of that increase, 9.1 points, came in the releases after 2019, which include the pandemic years.

Walking lost the most ground, falling from 5.9% to 4.8% of workers (down 1.1 percentage points).

Working from home overtook walking to become the 2nd most common choice in the 2021 release and has stayed ahead since.

Biking peaked at 1.9% in 2018 and has since fallen back to 0.8%.

Commute Start Times in Clatsop County

  • Earlier AlarmsThe 3rd-biggest shift to earlier mornings among Oregon's 36 counties: the typical start is 17 minutes earlier than in 2009.

What Time Do People Leave for Work in Clatsop County?

The bars show when commuters in Clatsop County leave home for work, as a share of everyone who commutes (people who work from home are not counted), from the 2024 ACS 5-year estimates. The thin violet marks show Oregon for comparison. Hover over or tap a row for the exact numbers.

12:00-4:59 AM
8.6%
5:00-5:29 AM
2.9%
5:30-5:59 AM
2.8%
6:00-6:29 AM
6.8%
6:30-6:59 AM
8.5%
7:00-7:29 AM
11.9%
7:30-7:59 AM
14.6%
8:00-8:29 AM
11.5%
8:30-8:59 AM
4.0%
9:00-9:59 AM
8.0%
10:00-10:59 AM
4.2%
11:00-11:59 AM
1.6%
12:00-3:59 PM
10.5%
4:00-11:59 PM
4.1%

Clatsop County Oregon Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates

The busiest time to head out in Clatsop County is 7:30-7:59 AM, when 14.6% of commuters leave home, compared with 13.0% across Oregon. Early starts are about as common as in Oregon: 14.3% of commuters leave before 6 AM, versus 14.7% there. The morning rush looks much like Oregon's: 46.5% of departures fall in the two hours from 6:30 to 8:29 AM, versus 46.3% there. About 1 in 4 commuters (28.4%) leave at 9 AM or later, which usually points to shift work, flexible hours or part-time jobs.

When people leave matters as much as how far they go. Rush-hour traffic shrinks how much ground a 20-minute trip covers, so a trade area drawn as a simple circle often takes in neighborhoods that customers or staff would never drive from and misses others that are an easy trip. A drive-time zone, also called an isochrone, outlines every place within a set number of minutes of an address, which makes it the more honest way to size a store's catchment, a hiring area or the commute from a new home.

See it for yourself on the interactive map: click any spot in Clatsop County, pick a 5, 10, 15 or 30-minute drive and see the local demographics of the people who live within that exact drive time.

Is Clatsop County Waking Up Earlier? Typical Departure Time, 2009-2024

Each line follows the typical (median) departure time: the moment by which half of commuters have already left home. Higher on the chart means a later start. Setting Clatsop County next to Oregon and the U.S. shows whether local mornings are drifting earlier or later than everyone else's. The figures span 16 ACS 5-year releases, so changes build up gradually rather than jumping from one year to the next.

Median time commuters leave home, by ACS 5-year release year. Source: U.S. Census Bureau.
Show typical departure times by year
Year Clatsop County Oregon United States
2009 8:04 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2010 7:58 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2011 7:55 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2012 7:57 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM
2013 7:53 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2014 7:51 AM 7:42 AM 7:39 AM
2015 7:53 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2016 7:54 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2017 7:53 AM 7:40 AM 7:38 AM
2018 7:55 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2019 7:52 AM 7:38 AM 7:37 AM
2020 7:48 AM 7:39 AM 7:37 AM
2021 7:43 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2022 7:46 AM 7:40 AM 7:37 AM
2023 7:45 AM 7:41 AM 7:38 AM
2024 7:47 AM 7:42 AM 7:38 AM

In 2024, half of commuters in Clatsop County were on the road by 7:47 AM, 17 minutes earlier than in 2009 (8:04 AM). That goes against the trend across Oregon, where the typical commuter now leaves 2 minutes later than in 2009. Commuters in Clatsop County now leave 10 minutes later than the typical American commuter (7:38 AM). Since the 2019 release, which covers the years just before the pandemic, the typical start in Clatsop County has moved 5 minutes earlier.

How does Clatsop County's commute time compare?

Metric Clatsop County Oregon US Average
Avg. Commute Time 16.5 min 20.1 min 22.4 min
Departure Window 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM
Secondary Departure Window 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM
Work From Home 13.6% 19.0% 15.0%
Walked 4.8% 3.3% 2.4%
Public Transit 0.2% 2.2% 3.2%

The average commute time in Clatsop County is 16.5 minutes, shorter than the 20.1 minutes in Oregon.

0.2% commute by public transit, lower than the 2.2% in Oregon. 4.8% commute by walking, higher than the 3.3% in Oregon.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau

Clatsop County, OR Commute Compared With Nearby Counties

Clatsop County, OR is the 3rd largest of the 6 counties compared here, 41,354 residents against a local median of 27,495. Where Clatsop County, OR breaks from the counties next to it is one-way commute, sitting 23% below the local median of 21.5 min at 16.5 min. That is the better end of the local range on this measure.

Work from home tells the same story from another angle: 13.6% against a local median of 16.5%, 17% below it. The counties themselves spread 18.2 min on one-way commute, so Clatsop County, OR sits at one end of an already wide local range rather than apart from it. Clatsop County, OR has the 3rd lowest one-way commute of the 6 areas compared here.

Area Population One-way commute Work from home Typical departure
Clatsop County, OR 41,354 16.5 min #3/6 13.6% #5/6 7:47 AM #6/6
Wahkiakum County, WA 4,646 26.8 min 16.2% 7:05 AM
Pacific County, WA 23,983 15.6 min 16.5% 7:33 AM
Tillamook County, OR 27,495 13.5 min 19.3% 7:36 AM
Columbia County, OR 53,499 31.7 min 12.2% 7:11 AM
Washington County, OR 603,920 21.5 min 24.4% 7:44 AM

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about commuting in Clatsop County, Oregon.

Is living in Clatsop County, Oregon good for avoiding long commute costs?

Commuters here spend an estimated 138 hours a year on the road, worth roughly $4,269 at a typical national wage. That's 18% less than the typical Oregon commuter spends.

When is peak congestion during the morning commute in Clatsop County, Oregon?

Traffic peaks between 07:30 AM – 07:59 AM in Clatsop County, Oregon. Leaving before or after this window is the single easiest way to avoid the heaviest local congestion, though 07:00 AM – 07:29 AM also sees a secondary bump.

Is public transportation a realistic commute option in Clatsop County, Oregon?

Public transit usage is significantly lower here than typical: about 0.2% of commuters use it versus 2.2% in Oregon, meaning a personal vehicle is essential for most workers.

How do commute times compare across counties in Oregon?

Among counties in Oregon, the shortest average commutes are in Lake County (7.7 min), Harney County (8.6 min), Baker County (8.9 min). The longest are in Columbia County (31.7 min), Clackamas County (23.9 min), Polk County (22.2 min).